Children of the Sea Anime Film's Teaser Trailer Introduces Beautiful Visuals, Music by Joe Hisaishi

 

The official website for the forthcoming anime film adaptation of Daisuke Igarashi's award-winning

fantasy manga Kaiju no Kodomo/Children of the Sea has posted a key visual and a 20-second teaser

trailer featuring its soundtrack music by internationally renowned composer Joe Hisaishi (Hayao Miyazaki,

Takeshi Kitano films), and announced its main staff and three main voice cast. The film's release date

in Japan is set for June 7, 2019.

 

52-year-old Ayumu Watanabe (After the Rain, Gurazeni) is confirmed to serve as director, alongside

character designer/chief animation director Keinichi Konishi (Tokyo Godfathers, A Good Librarian Like

a Good Shepherd). Studio 4°C (Tekkonkinkreet, Berserk: Golden Age Arc) works on anime production.

 

Teaser trailer

 

Key visual

 

Main voice cast:


  • Ruka Azumi: Mana Ashida (14/Mako Mori in her childhood in Pacific Rim) 
  • Sora: Hiiro Ishibashi (14/Muguel in Coco Japanese dub) 
  • Umi: Airu Kubozuka (16/actor Yosuke Kubozuka's son, his first voice acting role)

 

 


Kaiju no Kodomo/Children of the Sea was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly IKKI from its February

2006 issue to November 2011 issue, and compiled in five tankobon volumes. It won the excellence

award at the 38th Japan Cartoonist Awards in 2009 and the Excellence Prize at the 13th Japan Media

Arts Festival in the same year, and nominated twice the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2008 and 2009.

 

 

Under the title Children of the Sea, its English edition was published by Viz Media from 2009 to 2013.

The publisher introduces the first volume's story as below:

 

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she

feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They

were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad and the

other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as

they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.

 

 

Japanese edition tankobon 1st and 5th volume covers

 

 

Source: "Children of the Sea" anine film official website / Twitter

 

© KaijunoKodomo Committee

© Daisuke Igarashi/Shogakukan

 



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